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TF 27 SW HEMINGBY MAIN STREET (west side) 1/4 Church of 14.9.66 St. Margaret G.V. II Parish church. C14, rebuilt 1764 by John Clark and rebuilt again in 1895 by W. Scorer. Green sandstone rubble blocks, limestone ashlar. Plain tiled roofs with decorative roof tiles, stone coped gables and cross finials. West tower, nave with north organ chamber, south vestry and chancel. West tower with 2 stage diagonal buttresses. Pointed west window with 2 pointed cusped lights set into 2 other pointed cusped lights and mouchette. Cusped light in north side. Doorway in south side with lean-to porch with outer semi-circular chamfered doorway with hood mould and ornate label stops. Inner pointed chamfered doorway with double plank doors. Single rectangular lights above on north and south sides. Clock above on west side. Bell openings on all 4 sides, each with a triangular head. 2 pointed cusped lights, mouchette, hood mould and C14 head label stops. Moulded eaves above and parapet with frieze of blind, pointed arches and rectangular pedestals at corners. Weathervane. C18 north side of nave with 2 windows with semi-circular heads,and C19 tracery of 2 pointed cusped lights and mouchette. Gabled organ chamber to east with single north window with 3 plate trefoil headed lights. Projecting doorway to east return with chamfered head and plank door. East end of chancel with broad, pointed C19 window with 3 cusped lights and 3 mouchettes. C14 fragment of frieze inserted above with 2 cusped diamonds containing blank shields. South side of chancel with rectangular light to east with ogee cusped light and 2 mouchettes. Projecting gabled vestry with triangular headed window with 2 cusped, pointed lights and mouchette. 2 C14 fragments of tracery inserted above. South side of nave with 3 C18 semi-circular headed windows with C19 tracery of 2 pointed, cusped lights and mouchette. Tall C19 tower arch with triangular head and chamfered surround. Chancel arch, a re-used C14 pointed, chamfered arch, the inner order supported on polygonal corbels. Single semi-circular openings give access to north organ chamber and south vestry. C14 octagonal font on octagonal pedestal and broached base. C19 pews, pulpit, lectern and highly painted reredos. Grey and white marble monument with urn flanked by single globes, to the Reverend Joseph Carr, died 1768. White marble monument on black marble field, to Mrs. Baker of Orsett Hall, Essex, died 1849. Listing NGR: TF2372974418

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